Important Aspects in the Treatment of Severe Accidental HypothermiaThe Innsbruck Experience
作者:
Elisabeth Kornberger,
Peter Mair,
期刊:
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
(OVID Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 1
页码: 83-87
ISSN:0898-4921
年代: 1996
出版商: OVID
关键词: Hypothermia;Extracorporeal circulation;Peritoneal dialysis;Airway rewarming;Outcome
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The purpose of this paper is to review important aspects in the treatment of accidental hypothermia, based on our own experience in rewarming 55 patients with severe accidental hypothermia and a core temperature <30°C. We used three different methods of re warming, adjusted to the patients' hemodynamics: airway rewarming, warmed fluids and insulation in patients with stable hemodynamics (group 1, n = 24), peritoneal dialysis in patients with unstable hemodynamics (group 2, n = 7) and extracorporeal circulation in patients with cardiocirculatory arrest (group 3, n = 24). Survival rates were 100% (group 1), 72% (group 2) and 13% (group 3) retrospectively. Published data supporting our strategy and alternative approaches are reviewed. The method used to rewarm a patient with severe accidental hypothermia should be adjusted to the hemodynamic status. The prognosis is excellent in patients in whom no hypoxic event precedes hypothermia and no serious underlying disease exists.
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